[RFC] Removal of drivers/staging/media/bcm2048

[RFC] Removal of drivers/staging/media/bcm2048

[Hans Verkuil]

This staging driver is now almost 6 years old, but hasn't seen any real
development for a long time.

I think it is time to remove it, unless someone plans to do work on this
in the near future.

If anyone wants to work on this, please let us know.

Regards,

	Hans

Re: [RFC] Removal of drivers/staging/media/bcm2048

[Pavel Machek]

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On Tue 2019-07-23 10:51:52, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> This staging driver is now almost 6 years old, but hasn't seen any real
> development for a long time.
> 
> I think it is time to remove it, unless someone plans to do work on this
> in the near future.
> 
> If anyone wants to work on this, please let us know.

So... unfortunately this one depends on bluetooth driver, which is
quite complex. Unfortunately, that one was removed from staging while
it was being worked upon, and seen little progress since that.

Best regards,
									Pavel

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Re: [RFC] Removal of drivers/staging/media/bcm2048

[Pali Rohár]

On Tuesday 23 July 2019 11:09:53 Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2019-07-23 10:51:52, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > This staging driver is now almost 6 years old, but hasn't seen any real
> > development for a long time.
> > 
> > I think it is time to remove it, unless someone plans to do work on this
> > in the near future.
> > 
> > If anyone wants to work on this, please let us know.
> 
> So... unfortunately this one depends on bluetooth driver, which is
> quite complex. Unfortunately, that one was removed from staging while
> it was being worked upon, and seen little progress since that.

There is already a new bluetooth driver hci_nokia for bcm2048:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/bluetooth/hci_nokia.c
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts

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Pali Rohár
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Re: [RFC] Removal of drivers/staging/media/bcm2048

[Hans Verkuil]

On 7/23/19 11:48 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 July 2019 11:09:53 Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Tue 2019-07-23 10:51:52, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>> This staging driver is now almost 6 years old, but hasn't seen any real
>>> development for a long time.
>>>
>>> I think it is time to remove it, unless someone plans to do work on this
>>> in the near future.
>>>
>>> If anyone wants to work on this, please let us know.
>>
>> So... unfortunately this one depends on bluetooth driver, which is
>> quite complex. Unfortunately, that one was removed from staging while
>> it was being worked upon, and seen little progress since that.
> 
> There is already a new bluetooth driver hci_nokia for bcm2048:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/bluetooth/hci_nokia.c

Hmm, this went in two years ago.

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts
> 

Is there any chance that this bcm2048 driver will be fixed and moved out of staging
by the end of this year? If not, then I want to remove it.

Regards,

	Hans

Re: [RFC] Removal of drivers/staging/media/bcm2048

[Sebastian Reichel]

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Hi,

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:58:54PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 7/23/19 11:48 AM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 July 2019 11:09:53 Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> On Tue 2019-07-23 10:51:52, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>> This staging driver is now almost 6 years old, but hasn't seen any real
> >>> development for a long time.
> >>>
> >>> I think it is time to remove it, unless someone plans to do work on this
> >>> in the near future.
> >>>
> >>> If anyone wants to work on this, please let us know.
> >>
> >> So... unfortunately this one depends on bluetooth driver, which is
> >> quite complex. Unfortunately, that one was removed from staging while
> >> it was being worked upon, and seen little progress since that.
> > 
> > There is already a new bluetooth driver hci_nokia for bcm2048:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/bluetooth/hci_nokia.c
> 
> Hmm, this went in two years ago.

AFAIK the bluetooth depency is quite light actually. While bcm2048
provides the bluetooth and the FM radio, bluetooth is handled through
serial and FM radio is handled via I2C. I do not remember if FW has
to be loaded via BT to have functional FM radio, but there should be
no other dependency. TLDR: I think it should work at the moment.

> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/arch/arm/boot/dts/omap3-n900.dts
> 
> Is there any chance that this bcm2048 driver will be fixed and
> moved out of staging by the end of this year? If not, then I want
> to remove it.

FWIW I do _not_ plan to work on this, since I'm too busy with other
things (e.g. moving the wl128x radio driver to use the new hci_ll
driver).

-- Sebastian

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